ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,608, issued on May 5, was assigned to Progress Software Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Query system" was invented by Raja Sekhar Chunduru (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficient query processing using a real index of a queried table are described. In one embodiment, the real index is used in an offset query type in order to reduce the number of rows that are sorted and thereby increases efficiency for processing offset query types. In another embodiment, the real index is used in a set operation query type where existing systems utilize a table scan and thereby increases efficiency of set operati...